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What the Future Present Company Looks Like After the Royal Oak Fire

Here, courtesy of a Swamplot reader, are a few exterior views of the building at 1318 Westheimer after its weekend fire. “The damage is pretty severe,” Shawn Bermudez wrote on Facebook Saturday evening. The owner of Royal Oak Bar & Grill, which shut down in this location last September, had been renovating the property in order to reopen it as a bar named Present Company. That work was a month from completion, Bermudez estimates. Among the additions to the former 1950s home: new steel doors and windows. And here’s a view showing the current state of the new piggyback patio added in back:

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We happened to be driving up Commonwealth to Westheimer when the fire was raging. Having just returned from Burning Man I can tell you it wasn’t the biggest fire I’ve seen in the last few weeks but it was impressive.